"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Film spectators are quiet vampires." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Getting drunk, you're in control. It's the difference between suicide and capitulation." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than anything else ... A person has to be willing to give up everything--not just wealth--all the bullshit he's been taught--all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)